Outstanding type of architectural creation of ancient Sri Lanka.
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He founded rest houses and hospitals, as well as monasteries and thousands of stupas.
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The countryside is dotted with pagodas, stupas and monasteries.
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All stupas represent the Buddha Mind, and circling it is believed to bring one closer to enlightenment.
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Ship, combined from an early formation of three hulls, now resembles two ancient stupas joined at their bases.
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Packed full of ancient Buddhist temples and stupas for your day trips, Laos also offers the Viengxay Caves.
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The rock-hewn temples and the yet more strange dagobas of India now belong to science.
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Near the monastery stand the sombre dagobas where repose the ashes of former abbots and monastery officials.
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The best dagobas were crumbling, immense tanks broken, and general devastation succeeded where splendor had long reigned.
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We had to get there before dusk: the sunset over the dagobas was the best in Sri Lanka, they said.
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Sir Emmerson Tennent, in his delightful work on Ceylon, describes one of these dagobas, that of Jayta-wana-rama, erected by Mahasen, A.D. 330:-
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Beyond them, towering up into the clear sky, rose at different distances several of those prodigious structures, the dagobas, which I have described.
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Some buildings are still standing; among these are two dagobas, huge monuments of bricks, formerly covered with white cement, and elaborately decorated with different devices.
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Dagobas were reserved for relics of the Buddha, and this act appeared to be one of deliberate sacrilege.
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The Dagobas, or shrines of relics, which abound in such numbers in Thibet, have also been found in India and other countries.